“My father?” She gave a little laugh.
“Yes, haven’t you ever seen him either?”
“Why, how should I, silly? Who says that mother knew herself who it was?”
There was a pause. Then Peer brought out, rather awkwardly: “We’re all alone, then—you and I.”
“Yes—we are that.”
“Louise! What are you thinking of taking to now?”
“What are you?”
So Peer told her all his plans. She said nothing for a little while—no doubt she was lying thinking of the grand things he had before him.
At last she spoke. “Do you think—does it cost very much to learn to be a midwife?”
“A midwife—is that what you want to be, girl?” Peer couldn’t help laughing. So this was what she had been planning in these days—since he had offered to help her on in the world.